Its hard to believe that 5 months have gone by since I signed up for Spark.com. Man the time has just gone by so fast !! I am down to 183 and hoping by June to be at least 180 if not less. But all in good time. I am pretty sure I am on target a... Read more

I am really enjoying my journey at this time, and I am looking forward to the next few months to see the progress I make. I have removed 15 lbs off my frame, I have regained some mobility and agillity, I am growing more confident every day and I... Read more

Today is my sisters' birthday. I have two sisters both born on the same day, month. I will only be celebrating with one, the younger one.
My first sister, who was older then me was born on this day, a long time ago. Unfortunately, she passe... Read more

My journey thus far is great and is going well. I have learnt to eat more balanced and nutrious meals, to get up and move rather then sit all day long, I've made friends, and I've made progress...except...for....those dang calcium pills !!! ... Read more

I wondered what my blog this week was going to be, and for a bit it was difficult to actually come up with something worth writing about.
I looked at my spark page, and looked at my food and excersize log and while I was drifting along I re... Read more

The other day I decided to have a "cheat day" or a "free day" from this lifestyle as I had been craving some foods that I have not had since starting this journey.
I was visiting Cobbs to get my free hot cross buns, not for myself but to gi... Read more

When I first started this journey I really really thought the hardest thing for me to do would be to excersize in a manor that I could continue and have it become routine, or something I did like putting on socks and shoes, just something that w... Read more

and I am not sure I am ready. This is where I start putting together all the wonderful things I have been learning like portion control, tracking foods, recognizing the bad foods and iliminating them, reviewing the food and excersize tracker to ... Read more

then an Oak or any other kind of tree. The willow tree, it means a lot to me. I remember one in my grandma's back yard where her rock garden pond was. Grandma had time for things like that in her day when she was my age. She would not have had t... Read more

That's right, there's no fooling me, the nutrition tracker shows all the truth..and then some.
This week has been a bugger trying to get on track and do it all right...well I flopped out big time...so I celebrated tonite with a salad and h... Read more

Tweak: according to the dictionary(one I should use but ignore as much as possible) means: pinch or twist and pull...then tweaking is the noun of tweak...now don't ask me Im not an expert of verbs, nouns etc...I barely passed spelling and althou... Read more

This week has certainly been a week with its ups and downs and challenges that are not goal oriented. Its had its share of blessing, mixed and all.
So I'm ticky boo-in along and Monday night comes and I get a call from lil sis...and she's... Read more

Yup that's right that's what I said, there's no magic pill, and my Fairy Godmother is too busy finding available princes for ugly duckling girls at 17 like me; there's no chef, just me.
No one is going to come waltzing into my life and say... Read more

I posted this earlier tonite on a board and decided to blog it as well, I really needed to turn my attitude around and this helped..a lot..
Its Monday morning, 4:15 and I have to go to work today...I'll just snooze for an hour....Now its 5... Read more